Fujifilm launches Finepix Xp60 camera in UAE

Fujifilm has launched the Finepux Xp60 camera designed for families who love travelling and adventure and ofeers improved image quality along with a 5x optival zoom and the ability to perform even if the camera has been dropped, frozen, covered in dust or taken for a swim.

The Finepix Xp60 can shoot still and record videos underwater up to a depth of 6m with crystal-clear quality, and has a double seal protecting the battery chamber.

The camera can also withstand the shock of being dropped from heights of 1.5cm, captures pictures in cold temperatures of up to -10 degrees Celsius  and is also sand-proof due to the thoroughly sealed access ports that protect the lens and the sensor.

The Finepix XP60's CMOS sensor allows continuous shooting up to 10 frames per second or ultra-high-speed continuous shooting at up to 60 frames per second with the dedicated 'burst mode' button that lets user switch into convenient continuous shooting mode.

The camera also has a high speed multi-frame processing that can record two shots or more at different exposures and combine them to achieve high dynamic range with natural contrasts that preserves details in the highlights and shadows. Individual shutter 3D also let users create images with a 3D effect combining two shots taken from slightly different angles.

The Finepix XP60 allows users to record HD videos and share it on TV.,computers and other large screen devices.

PHOTOSHOP SHORTCUT KEYS

PHOTOSHOP SHORTCUTS keys: (In windows)

1. CTRL + Z = UNDO button
2. CTRL + J = Duplicate layer (can also select a portion of a layer with the Marquee tool and use CTRL + J to duplicate only the selected area)
3. CTRL + D = Deselecting the marching Ants.
4. CTRL + U = Bring up Hue/saturation dialog box
5. CTRL + N = New blank file (shortcut to file> New dialog)
6. CTRL + E = merge& flatten to layer below
7. CTRL + O = open(shortcut to file>open dialog);you can also double click in Photoshop outside of nay open documents (in the grey area) to bring up the open dialog
8. CTRL + 0 = Zooms out so entire canvas is visible (example, if you are zoomed in working on a small area of a 12X12 canvas, pressing CTRL +) would zoom out to view the whole 12X12 page in the window
9. CTRL + + or - = Zoom in or out
10. CTRL + Shift + Alt + E = combine all layers into a new layer on top of existing layers (instead of flattening or merging all)
11. CTRL + ALT + G = clip to layer below
12. CTRL + Shift + [or] = move layer to top or bottom
13. CTRL + [or] = move layer up or down one level 
14. Shift + CTRL + N = Create New layer 
15. CTRL + Shift + Backspace = Fill a layer with background color (Tip from becca 1976 : " I use this a lot when customizing my shadows.")

• Tab = hide/show all palettes
• V = Move tool 
• T = text tool 
• B = Brush tool
• M = marquee tool 
• [and] = adjust brush size when using the Brush tool

Silhouettes in a Giant Moon rise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens

Real photo - no Photoshop required.

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Silhouettes in a Giant Moon-rise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens?

Earlier this week, photographer Philip Schmidli of Lucerne, Switzerland captured this incredible photograph of a biker’s silhouette in front of a giant moon rising in the horizon.

Schmidli reveals that he has been trying to capture this photograph for four months or so, but complications got in the way of previous attempts. Clouds got in the way of the full moon in January, and bad weather interfered with his attempts in February and March as well.

Finally, during this latest attempt with April’s full moon, the weather cleared up and gave the “green light” for this photo idea.

He first spent hours exploring Google Earth, searching for the perfect location to shoot the image. He needed a hill in the distance that would allow his subject to be framed by the moon rise .The he ended up deciding on this hill.

To have the subject be dwarfed by the size of the moon, he needed a large gap between the camera and the hill. The distance for this shoot ended up being 1.3 kilometers, or 0.8 miles.

Photographs by Philipp Schmidli

How you rate this experimentation? - An amazing picture with Canon 40D

Tintu Thampi and his brother Kukku Thampi likes experimenting the harry potter style and the attached image is part of that initiative! 

They used the Canon 40D, with settings as follows 

Aperture: 7.1, 

ISO : 500, 

Exposure : 1/1667. 

How do you guys rate their creative input? Keep your comments coming and help them in their efforts towards improving their photography....

New Fujifilm HS50 latest and best price in UAE

The new Fujifilm model HS50 -42 X optical zoom-16 megapixel-1080p HD video recording - This camera is currently a highly recommended camera in the  bridge camera category in the GCC market . The latest and the best price available in the market is AED 1899.

SONY HX300 - REVIEW WITH LATEST AND BEST PRICE IN DUBAI

Sony introduced new Cybershot HX300 which is in the bridge category with 20 megapixels-50X optical zoom-1080p HD video. As a very good camera should have the three key components to produce images : Lens,image sensor and image processing engine. This camera includes this three components in the best level as Sony can. 

Here it is used the carl zeiss lens which is the most Cyber-shot's eye to the world. Sony assures a superbly detailed image. The Exmor CMOS image sensor helpd the camera to double the light sensitivity and combines with Sony's Column A/D conversion to reduce noise by half while shooting in dimly light. With the help of Sony's image processing engine BIONZ which is very fast and efficient. The specialty of the camera which is Extra high sensitivity, Hand-held twilight,anti motion blur and high power zoom with blur free makes the photography experience more interesting and amazing. 

This model can be compared with Nikon's P520- 18mp- 42x- 1080p HD video , Canon SX50 - 12mp-50X-1080p HD and Fujifilm HS50 - 16mp-42x(manual) - 1080p HD video.

Compared to all this model the Sony seems to be a little bit bulky and the design is not interesting. Size wise more preference is for Nikon P520 and Canon Sx50. Fujifilm HS50 also is a size more but it looks like a Dslr camera with manual zooming which is amazing in design. Features wise also more preferable is Fujifilm.

The latest,current and the best retail selling price of each model in Dubai,UAE is like this : 

SONY HX300 - AED 1999

CANON SX50 - AED 1899

NIKON P520 - AED 1799

                                    FUJIFILM HS50 - AED 1899

Sony Rx1- review with latest and best price in Dubai

This is Sony'samazing new model RX1 which is 35mm full frame Exmor CMOS Sensor which will help to capture every detail of the scene with an extreme low noise and amazingly rich. This camera has a wide dynamic range and it is 24.3 effective megapixel resolution. 

This is highly inquired model of Sony among all the same range models in the competitive brands.

The main competing model of this range is Fujifilms new X-series and Olympus OMD series. But the Sony and Olympus has the unavailability in Dubai market feels the customer not to go for those models. But still the Sony is highly recommended by me. 

They use the same Carl Zeiss lens for this Sony Rx1 camera and the ISO can be increased upto 102400. For fixing external flash they gave a ni-multi interface shoe and it got an amazing body design.  The current,  latest and the best selling price of this model in Dubai,UAE market (will be updated soon)

Special offer!!!! Never wait gor that....

Most of the customer used to wait for a price drop in camera,mobile and other gadgets when they arr palnning to buy. Its not a good decision to wait for a price drop or special offer. Escpecially in the high end gadgets. For the small gadgets like compact camera and low end mobiles its ok to wait for a good offer. But most of the high end gadgets will reduce their price once tge model is outdated or ehen its going to be discontinued.
In case of cameras Dslr camera price will not be reduced if that is a good model. For example Nikon D90 stuck in the same price for a couple of years because of its high demand and popularity. But if a model is not success or a flop in the market then the price will go down immediately after the launch. Same like this Canon Eos 650 first edition was a flop because of some technical issues forced the company to reduce the price immediately after the launch. But this price unstability and issues is not applicable on compact digital cameras. Becuase as per the company the share of sale is determined by the sale of compact and low-end fast-moving cameras. In last couple of years Fujifilm camera reduced one of their compact camera price to half the original price to make their share in the market more visible.
When we see the mobile market we can see the same effect. High-end models of different brands like Samsung,I-phone,Sony, Nokia, HTC etc is still in the stable in terms of price. They never try a price drop in that series for making a big sales. Because they know that the customer will buy even in the same price.